Sunday, June 22, 2008

Mimoh in Jimmy: Well, why not?

In Jimmy - which I had the good fortune of catching up with this weekend - Mimoh finds himself in deep shit. He's up to his neck in huge financial karz, his Mom treats him like an infant, he has a brain tumor, he's stuck with a girlfriend who is beyond annoying, he's on death row for murder and his best friend can't act. Yet all of these problems pale next to the most bhayanak one he has - his hair.

Mimoh has curious hair to say the least. On one side he gels his hair into a solid wall. On the other side he lets it hang loose - often it resembles a rug that's been inserted into a horribly wrong laundry cycle (not that I've ever done anything like that). Under the right kind of lighting, it makes him look like a bottle blond.

It's just one of the many fascinating things that held me engrossed through the first half of the movie. Jimmy is so bad, it takes you a while to get used to it. In the first act I wasn't quite sure if the entire project had been devised as a clever nod to Mithun's anya B-flicks or if actual adults had made it.

In any case, in the second half - having assured myself that this was the closest I could get to Manmohan Desai nostalgia, I had a positively better time. I was even able to enjoy the many odd, loopy and inexplicable things in the movie like a helicopter that seems to disappear into water.

The best of all of this is a Rambo-inspired sequence where Mimoh dons a black headband and lays waste to a bunch of hapless policemen on an abandoned set. (This showdown having been forced after a breathless chase in which the police catch up with Mimoh and his girl who have both been unfairly weighed down by their individual bouncing chests)

91 comments:

Rofl!What a fantastic way to start the week.Just whats needed to ward away the Monday Blues!I loved the captions...actually to be fair to Mimoh, he did offer a variety of expressions....but the 'terrified Mimoh' left me laughing cos it reminded me of a 'terrified Bobby Deol'.And thanks for helping us with our natural sciences.....a water buffalo in the Kalahari:).Lol!

And now onto a very serious matter. I must take it upon myself to analzye Mimoh's hair and thus his personality.

Mimoh's hair is over processed--like a bleach and a perm at the same time. This indicates that Mimoh posseses an experimenting spirit. He is forever trying to refine his persona (and he still has a way to go.)

His half gelled half loose hair style points to a deep sense of duality in his psyche. He is unsure of himself and tries to cover all bases (like disco, action, romance and inadvertent comedy in his films.)

Sage counsel from Mind Rush to Mimon direct:

1) Invest in a hat. And another hair stylist. You need a new look.

2) Email me. We need to send you to a Vocational Counselor. You need a new career.

I is agree with my best friend Olga. Aspi are bein a hator and i see jealousness behind the hateyfull post.

What sort in a name is Aspi anyway. I thinks that you was bullied in skool because of that horrified name therefore you is picking on sexy Mimoh.

This are his first movie therefore you can not expect him to act like De Niro, Pacino and Mithunda. But he is still the handsomest and most talented Indian actor comes after Mithunda the legendary actorman.

Olga and Svetlana, whether real or fake, its not nice to be making personal potshots at anyone on the drift. Everyone here is entitled to his or her personal opinion. The idea here is to have fun and laugh it off. So just relax and enjoy the drift.

LMAO!! I agree with anu g, what a fantastic way to start Monday!! This has to be one of top 5 besht drift entry!! BRAVO ASPI, BRAVO!!! I think we have another "Niranjan" type haters on this blog...welcome Svetlana, Olga! i wonder what happened to that guy?!

Great career choices for Mimmoh Mind Rush...I still can't stop laughing at "4) Carpet cleaner---match his hair"

Hey, at least Mimoh brought his own hair to the party. Govinda on the other hand, stole Bappi da's hair, The Himesh's girl and my appetite. I hope the Chinese and pissed off Madrasis everywhere divebomb his fool house. http://youtube.com/watch?v=RY6jFwNknsU

One of the funniest reviews I have read. Mimoh has got to be one of the UGLIEST star kids trying to make a career as a leading man. He looks like Yogita Bali after a sex change procedure gone horribly wrong.

Alternately, he looks like what would result, if a mad scientist took Yogita Bali genes, added in some water buffalo genes just for fun, a dash of sloth bear, and a swirl of a really bad coconut coir rug, and finally, fed the resulting creature on a diet of a five kilos of mishtis and french fries daily, for years.

I can only stop laughing for a short time so am going to type this quik...Drift saab, this movie was not made by Mimoh and subsequently the blame for this horror should be shared by the director/script writer/screen play guy, etc. Could you please give us a list of who the film gives credit to for key tasks? Thanks!

My father Johan and mother Anneke were greatest fans of Mithunda! They was listening to I am a disco dancer while I was being conceived!

I was even named after the legend. I grew up watching every single Mithun movie.

I used to have acne all over my face and people in my school used to pick on me. My love for dancing and Mithunda made me feel I wasn't just an overweight acne prone teenager with buck tooth! Whenever I was down and blue, I would listen to Mithun mix tape in my sony walkman and it gave me reason to live. Something to look forward to.

Now I work in my local bar as a Mithun impersinator and make decent living out of it.

Some of you need to feel ashamed with yourselves. You are belittleing someone who don't even know personally. I have seen Jimmy and I was proud of my little brother.

If any of you people come to Abborrhult my hometown, I will buy you a round of Kåtisbock while you watch how popular my act is with the local Swedes.

I do not understand English a little bit. I am using online translator to type this post. Please forgive my grammar but you seem like you are a big fan of Mimoh, thanks for sharing those sexy pictures.

I was having a bad day at the office, my boss yelled at me but looking at Mimoh's majestic pictures made me very happy. A thousand thank you's will not be enough.

The comments section is even more hilarious then the actual post.That is what happens to actor bacchas who look like their mommies.Add the fact here that Mimoh is Disco Mithun's son and not romancing Rishis and not backed by a SLB and no Sony studios.Yeh to hona hi thha.Aspi, Me thinks greatbong was here http://greatbong.net/2008/05/23/jimmy-the-review/

gees...when i had just started showering all my affection from SR t on nil kaps...n in comes mimoh darling....oohh..how HWAT he is!!!mann....i agree wid de russian chix...too sexy for words man....and aspi, can we have anoder addition??teddybear mimoh??i mean i soo fantasise about him day in n day out...:P

Imran's headed for success? WTF? seriously if he was a nobody and nephew of some random Akbar Khan chief accountant at Price Waterhouse India no one would give him a second look

hell people would even make fun of his girly act and lack of good looks and nerdy appearance. Just because aamir Khan is leaving no stones unturned to make his nephew a star even before people get to see his so called "talent"

what happened to the "conscientious" Aamir khan who used to be all "i avoid desi award shows because of injustice" etc etc etc

He just ended up being a sheep and a member of the nepotism club of Bollywood.

I don't like Mimoh either aspi. ever since he maked an entry in the entertainment sceen, my girlfriend wants me to change my haircut to look like him.

that isn't the end of it, she prints out a picture of him and makes a mask for me to wear. Yesterday I wrote her off for the 50th time but once I saw her face I lost my nerve to say anything to her. I ended up cooking her dinner as she watched the DVD for the 123rd time.

We make plans to go out then she rings me and says she would rather have girls night in basking in his glory.

WHAT DOES MIMOH HAVE THAT I DON'T?

She practises action scenes that she saw in Jimmy and starts treating my like the villian and abuses me physically.

she said I am like a disease that keeps coming back, I know that i should stick up for myself and not put up with the abuse but what can i do? I got no self esteem.

i can put up the abuse but i don't know how i put up with her knocking on ym door 3 am and looking to score some Igor love. Then she calls me Mimoh while we are having an intimate moment.

WHY ASPI WHY? Mimoh should be locked away for life. It isn't just me, every man in St Petersburg has the same sad woe tale to tell.

drift memsaab - I acknowledge your pain. I am going through the same emotions as you are. My girlfriend loves Mimoh more than she loves me. We should get together for coffee and share our pain together.

I wrote a poem

The shadows are fallingAnd I'm alone againIn a gilded hellYou call lovelyStill wishingWith all my heartI could rise above this

You meant everything.And that's what terrifies meTo the core of who I amA wraith-like childFrozen inside,This little birdHas had his wings broken

So I scream one more timeBegging youTo help the one little boyYou reduced to less than nothing.Love me, please

while I agree with you about the whole Imran thing where he couldn't've gotten in if he wasn't Aamir Khan's nephew, that's how most if not all of b-wood works. I mean, look at half the jokers out there, I mean, do you really think Esha Deol, bobby deol, saif ali khan, the entire kapoor generation, hritik roshan, sonam kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan...this is a long-ass list...but you get my point...there is no WAY these guys would be where they are if they didnt already have someone to lean on in B-wood.

gg, I would omit Hrithik from your list. No way that gorgeous face and bod could be undiscovered for long. He may have had to go through the modeling route to get a break, but hey, if Aftab (yuck) Shivdasani or Sameer (yuck) Dattani can do it, certainly Hrithik could have. Rest are all eejits.

just like Imran would've been discovered but it wouldn't have been handed to him on a silver platter just like it was to Hritik...that was the point. I mean, most of them dont deserve it but they are here to stay in b-wood becuase of the people they know and associate with. I dont think Hritik is a phenomenal actor...good looks, yes (at times even...not always) but he can act given the right script and a decent director...and there is no way he would be where he is now if it wasn't for the famous daddy and chachu!

Hmm I think we will have to agree to disagree on the Hrithik point. I think he has definitely proven himself and I think him and Rakesh Roshan have a symbiotic relationship.The dad and chacha havent done him any favors unlike say Uday (gag) Chopra and ilk. If anything, the Roshans benefit from Hrithikmania that maybe makes their flicks blockbusters instead of superhits. Look at Rakesh Roshan prior to Kaho Na Pyar Hai. He made a lot of rubbish and beta's success has certainly added a lot of moolah (and hence, financing for future projects) to the khaandaan. I think the guy could've scaled such heights on his own merits, but maybe that's just me. Good observations though, abt the nepotism. It is one MAJOR reason why Btown keeps churning out crap.

yeah, and as much as i dont like Shah Rukh I am facinated that he became such a huge sensation all on his own merit. I mean, he started out small, worked his way up...no initial support/help from anyone. Even John Abraham was a model and these days, it's not as difficult to transition from model to films...but still, props to him as well.

Akki Kumar is also on that list...he was completely on his own when he entered B-wood. The only he had with him was his kick-ass blackbelt and cooking skillz!

Even Ash, I feel like since she was already a model/MS. World...that gave her enough exposure to get into the film industry without going thru as much struggle as say Akshay Kumar, or even Aspiji's favorite...Himanshu!

Well with so many star sons makin his debut maybe daddy told sonny boy that u need to be different....pity he took it tooo seriously and went for the one aspect which is surely different..his hair! talk of catchin attention, he surely has got enuff buzz goin for him (ooo i love being sarcastic :P). music of this movie was also non existent type so not a movie for me to vouche for sure. But i came across this music networkin portal called Planet Radio City . It talks only about music...so whether its jazz or gazals or rock or sufi or bollywood, you get all news and lyrics and trivia and even videos at one place. i signed up there n its real fun. Have a look.

ridhima, welcome. I think Planet Radio City is an interesting concept - if beaten one. But to get to where they seem like they want to be, they need to build way too much of what is already available.

These days music services offer their uniqueness up front instead of trying to be one stop shops (see: Songza for e.g.) So better approach: call last.fm, see if Radio City can use their API to build a service and then focus on adding South Asian content to it.

Though I'm half feeling sorry for Mimoh - "a guy trying hard to believe he's a star in a cool film", I don't have the courage to check out the movie myself - cant bring myself to watch - "graceful water buffalo stranded in the Kalahari".